Mainstreaming is proceeding at a rapid pace at the OECD, but progress is uneven; instructive lessons arise for both governments and the Organisation Institutional settings matter. The OECD has made a concerted and sustained effort to integrate green growth across its work programme, to good effect. Around 70% of country policy surveillance now contain green growth recommendations. Yet, overall progress masks considerable differences across publication series and green growth issues (Figure 3). To drive green growth, governments should implement institutional changes to integrate economic and environmental decision making and ensure coordination across relevant ministries that are similar to those undertaken by the OECD to ensure coherence in its work programme. Lessons from the OECD’s process are therefore relevant for governments and other organisations seeking to implement green growth. Drawing lessons from success. Green growth recommendations are included in around 82% of Economic Surveys, which are driving the overall high rate of green growth advice in OECD country surveillance, along with Environmental Performance Reviews. A number of mechanisms have driven the relatively rapid rate of progress. The most important elements include: high-level leadership and clear accountabilities; formal structures for coordination and collaboration; clear articulation of how green growth links to other policy priorities; and dedicating human resources to the mainstreaming process. Ensuring mechanisms to encourage information sharing across policy areas and promoting measurable indicators for use in policy analysis are also important.
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assess and fine-tune institutional settings for green growth mainstreaming, potentially taking the OECD’s experience as an example initiate the culture change required to engage economic and other relevant ministries in addressing green growth related issues (e.g. strategic oversight at highest levels of government; mechanisms to drive co-operation between relevant ministries; leadership role for economic policy makers as well as environment ministries).
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